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7 Strange Secrets to Your Amazing Life

…how many of these do you already know and use?

Hi again ,

Life is generally found to be a natural system that works in spite of our Sciences and our News Media and our Politicians and Celebrities.

That’s probably why we as a species have survived as long as we have. Because Nature wouldn’t let us quit.

For a fact, the few people who are outrageous success (as well as the many, many people who live lives of regular success) know part or all of the natural system which makes success possible.

Successful people tend to study successful people. This isn’t the same as finding yourself following followers. True successes find that certain principles (or Laws) continue to work regardless of the surrounding conditions. The people who hit onto these and use them consistently tend to have more success than those around them.

There are a lot of man-made deserts on this planet where civilizations once flourished. Italy, Greece, Egypt, and Iraq are some of these. Nation-states which were once the center of trade and the “civilized” world now are having a rough time simply keeping their national budgets balanced.

More recently, you can see the difference between North and South Korea. And how rapidly South Africa has changed with various administrations.

The point is that there aren’t a lot of people in those areas who have figured out what principles successful people know and then apply them to their own lives.

Not too surprising, all these principles aren’t secret. They’ve been written up time and time again. They trace back in our bestsellers over the ages to our oldest philosophies. And all those books are still in print, or can be found for free online.

It takes looking.

Do you want to be successful?

Then you need to study successful people and the books they studied.

Too simple.

If you’re happy with what you have and the conditions around you, then just keep doing what you are doing. If you aren’t happy with your results, or want to do better, then you need to change what you are doing and thinking. Because what you’ve done and thought up to this point has gotten you where you are. Doing more of the same will give you more of the same.

There are systems at work. Most of these principles work together to create systems anyone can apply in their lives. As covered above, most of the successful people have figured out a few or quite a few of these. Steven Covey came up with his 7 Habits. Napoleon Hill published 13 in his Think and Grow Rich, but ended up with 17 principles as his system.

Earl Nightingale is a favorite study of mine. He had an outrageously successful set of careers in his life. And left a wealth of data for you and I to be inspired and motivated by. If you boil these down, you’ll find that he had really just 7 points that he kept going back to.

(And more about these is available in a short read called “7 Strange Secrets to Winning Big” that is linked in the show notes as a free download, as well as Amazon.)

Here’s his list:

1. “We become what we think about.” Change your thinking, and you change what you can become or have in your life.

2. Test all conventional wisdom or advice you receive, read, hear, or observe. Only accept that data conditionally until you can test it fully.

3. The Golden Rule is the rule of gold. As you give openhandedly (and in excess) so you will recieve. Cause and Effect. You can’t get without giving. You have to have something valuable to offer before you can get something valuable in return.

4. The reason 2% make far more than the rest of the 98% is because they decided and set goals. Too simple. Focus on just one thing and you’ll get it. Focus on nothing and you get nothing.

5. The Gold Mine is between your ears. Practice thinking and you’ll sharpen your imagination, inspiration, and intuition. The ideas you get in your daily “thinking time” are all free. But you can use the best of these ideas to get any amount of riches you want. The trick is to practice thinking daily.

6. Attitude determines result. Norman Vincent Peale said this was his greatest discovery. A positive attitude creates positive results. A negative attitude creates negative results. Spend more time with positive people than negative ones and your life will have better results. Practice action to improve your attitude and results.

7. You river of interest creates your body of work. Find that “sweet spot” where your training and your interests overlap. Work in this area and create your best work routinely. If there is something more interesting, use what you already know how to do to pay for the training you need to move into that field. Follow your bliss in everything you do.

Those seven points are a minimalist approach to living. And they can be fewer or more, depending on your preferences.

The point is to have a system at the base of your mindset. Then stack your training and additional systems on top of this, or extended from it, to build your belief-system that will carry you comfortably through life.

You can only become what you think about, and can only achieve what you want to be or have by getting and keeping in action.

These seven points are a start. Change them as you like, test each of them for yourself.

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…5 Lessons to Unleash Your Inner Hero

Hi there ,

Most of our days are either being infuriated with the politicians running for election or turning them completely off to allow us to recharge our inner peace.

And at this date, we still have about a month to go. This mutual destruction of both candidates will continue another twenty-some days. If you take them seriously, you’d think the end of the world is at hand.

But the solution is to laugh at them – and read your comics for better solutions.

Comics are popular entertainment because they are a metaphor for life we can use to learn how to survive better.

There are several lessons comics have been teaching us all along that we can use to deal with the current noisy political scene and survive.

Lesson 1. 2 reasons good always wins out.

This isn’t just fiction. If you go back through comics, through Star Trek episodes, through all Western fiction, you’ll find that Good always triumphs over Evil. Even if it takes a few issues. Eventually, that’s the result.

If you chase back through history, even in our darkest hours, you’ll find that the Good Guys always win, regardless. Same deal. Might take awhile, but through our history, we’ve always ended up making things better.

The first reason for this is pretty simple: Evil is self-destructive. It seeks to destroy everything, including itself and everyone around it. Cause and Effect. Golden Rule. What you do to others will come back to you.

The second reason is that Evil was created by Good, and so is dissolved by it. Practically, it’s the problem is the lack of good, not the presence of evil. Charles F. Hannel had it as “you can’t shovel the darkness out of a room, you can only bring in more light.”

Those are the two core principles which explain a lot of what we are facing these days. Our mainstream media has gone crazy as they long ago accepted false ideas about how to act. Consider that point above. When they are truly impartial, they are respected. When they take one side or the other, they can’t be trusted. And the trust for the “news” media is actually less than Congress and slightly higher than a used-car salesperson.

Lesson 2. The world around you is mostly fake – here’s why.

Our worst problem is conventional wisdom. It’s false so often that the most common recommendation is to ignore it and go the opposite direction. Look this up for yourself in “quotes about conventional wisdom.”

Yet people run on this most of the time. They receive it, accept it, and never test what they find. You have probably heard of the 80/20 rule – that if you focus on the 20 percent which is producing 80 percent of your income, you’ll be able to profit better in life. This alone starts to show you how many bad solutions are out there.

If you then take 20 percent of that 20 percent, you’ll wind up with about 4 percent to focus on. Concentrating on that 4 percent will make your life even more simpler and richer. This starts to explain why 90% of the U.S. is on government handouts according to the Social Security Administration. It explains why some 98% of all of us never picks a goal for our lives.

In the comics, you don’t have this problem. The Good Guys always have a stellar ideal they follow. Star Trek was a peaceful exploring mission. And meanwhile defeated every effort to “dominate” the known universe by force. The X-Men program was developed to help people understand and use their forces for good. Like the Justice League, etc.

Evil really just defeats itself constantly. Yet in our own world, the bulk of humankind is in its current state because they have accepted conventional wisdom which is more destructive than good. And so, the huge numbers of people who never achieve their goals, who don’t live life to their fullest, who never attain their built-in abilities.

Lesson 3. You have super-powers that you don’t know of.

The worst thing our modern education does is to train people not to use their own imagination. Yet our beliefs create our abilities.

The successful are exceptions. Why this happens is kinda funny. Since success literally means result, the people who focus on getting things completed are successful. If you look back at the most successful people, you’ll find that they mostly dropped out of college and focused on one narrow area, handling each problem that came up so that it was permanently solved. The other thing is that they took on star-high goals.

Again, these are the way our comicb00k heroes approach life. They find their own talent and find that this makes them different from other people around them. When they work to improve this particular talent, they find that they can see themselves achieving a much higher state. They can use this talent to improve their own conditions and those around them.

Your beliefs create your abilities. But our schools are patterned on everyone acting the same way at the same time. (It actually traces back to Otto Von Bismark, who wanted school systems to create unquestioning armies.) But our heroes in the comics and in real life don’t follow these restrictions.

Practically, as no one can tell you how or what to believe, you can develop any ability you want. Sure, it still may take that fabled “10,000 hours” to get any good at it. But any work you’ve already done along this line is to your credit.

You become what you think about. And no one really can tell you what to think. So think big, think originally, think for yourself.

Lesson 4. Finding your own bliss will make your life worth living.

Go back through all the origin stories of comic book heroes. Once they accepted their own abilities and started to develop them, only then did their lives start to sort out. As long as they developed them for good. (As above, using abilities destructively will only lead you to your own destruction.)

Why have we gotten to the point where we have to choose between the worst of two worlds? Because we have been trying to ignore our own basic bliss, our purpose, what we are most interested in, our suppressed inner super-power.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychologist Abraham Maslow both found the same point – if people followed their own peak experiences (their bliss) then they would achieve their highest potential possible.

Campbell found this when he developed his “monomyth” of a single unifying plot that explained all legends and myths through our recorded traditions. Disney, Spielberg, and other movie makers have found this useful in making very profitable stories. This is similar to what you feel when you leave an inspiring movie – hope.

Maslow was in search of motivations, and instead of studying crazy people like most of Freudian psychology, he studied the outliers of people who achieved more than anyone else around them.

Both Maslow and Campbell came to the point that the people who looked for and chased what gave them the most satisfaction did better in life and achieved remarkable things.

No one can tell you what your bliss is. You have to find it for yourself. But if you pay attention to what makes you feel good, and what you are most interested in, and what you’ve trained yourself to do, then you can narrow down to this pretty quickly. The more you focus on finding your own bliss, the faster you’ll start succeeding in whatever you decide to do.

Lesson 5. Governments are temporary (and mostly unnecessary.)

You don’t find governments lasting very long, but longer in comics than real life. Where is the USSR? The Roman Empire? The Greek Democracy? The Mongols who controlled more land than any other single government? The Egyptian Pharaohs? The Assyrians, where civilization supposedly started (and is now mostly desert and fought over by small tribes of terrorists?)

Governments only succeed with the support of the people they represent. When they get too big, too clumsy, too meddlesome, then the people quit believing in them and quit listening to orders. Many wars have ended because people literally walked off the battlefield and quit listening to the generals and the commander in chief. Long before that, the people at home quit supporting them with enough food and supplies for them to win.

Taxes are like that too. When they get too high, people find ways around them. It’s always been that way. Look it up in your history books.

Our modern times are no different. Corporations and money-hungry individuals seek to influence government like they always have. Government technically always fails because it inevitably becomes a small elite group trying to make decisions for everyone else. They think they know best. And they can’t.

Our worst presidents are those who mostly acted for themselves, who followed beliefs which were those of a know-best elite. They shut off others from choosing their own beliefs.

So, of course that fails, and always will, because only the individual can decide for themselves. And they choose to believe what they will, and those beliefs create their world. Where they accept an unworkable belief, it ultimately fails. Because all beliefs are tested in the real world.

Some individuals have been able to temporarily persuade a nation of people to accept their beliefs to achieve a destructive end. Hitler and the Nazi’s were the worst example of this, but not the only one. North Korea has a similar problem right now. Elites forcing unworkable beliefs on people works only temporarily.

The exceptional success of the United States is due to the beliefs they wrote down in the organizing documents. Like the concept of the “pursuit of happiness.” The concept of “no taxation without representation.” The concept of a government is supposed to protect basic freedoms of the individual (and otherwise stay out of the way.)

Russia probably has more natural resources than are found in the North American continent. But their governments have never recognized basic rights of people to live their own lives. And every time their government goes to war, people and corporations withdraw their funds and trade, and the people are punished because their elites screwed up. Money only follows peace.

The U.S. isn’t perfect. And our elites have screwed up over and over. It’s always been individuals who followed their beliefs and fixed those screw-ups. Lots of individuals using their own native abilities.

The trick to being a hero(ine) is to figure out and follow your own beliefs, your own bliss. And make the world into what you want it to be. Use your native superpowers. Be exceptional.

The more you work for improving the lives of as many people as you can around you, the better your own life will end up. That’s the oldest natural law we all agree on. Cause and Effect. What you give, you get. You are treated as well as you treat others.

]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/comicbooks-help-survive-politics/feed/0Download this podcast. (This comic available on Scribd.com) …5 Lessons to Unleash Your Inner Hero Hi there , Most of our days are either being infuriated with the politicians running for election or turning them completely off to allow us to recharge our inner peace. And at this date, we still have about a month [...]NoNo13:21Robert C. Worstellability, belief, choice, goal achievement, politics, super powersHow To's and Why's You Can Use to Build Your Authorpreneur SuccessWhy Your Habits Won’t Changehttp://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/why-your-habits-wont-change/
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For all the popular books on habits and stacking them and so on, there are many failures along this line as well.

Habits are mental practices. They have a great deal to do with beliefs.

We tend to live very full lives. And our beliefs are that way as well. We tend to have a complete set of beliefs running at all times. This is our belief-system or world-view.

Because we think this pattern is complete, we resist accepting any new belief or idea that doesn’t somehow align with what we already have there.

Exactly how many beliefs we can hold onto at any given time has never been explored that I can find. While it could be infinite, in practical terms, we limit ourselves to just a few.

But don’t figure that’s a handful. There are supporting beliefs below those, and many incidents which “prove” those beliefs to be valid. Many of these are tied into emotions and other programming so that we have reflexive and instinctual actions that kick in.

You’ve probably seen yourself doing this on occasion. You can become instantly angry at some things, and can also find yourself tearing up over a sentimental movie. Some of these are quite survival-oriented, going back to the “fight-or-flight” instincts we’ve kept around and inherited. Others are more rational, but are still invoked on an instantaneous basis.

The density of these supportive beliefs and sorting them out is what supports certain psychotherapists and other practitioners.

That density is the reason you can’t accept new habits.

Because you simply don’t consider that you have any room for more.

Even when they tell you to start consciously doing a new action anytime you have the urge to do something else. (Like the advice to drink a glass of water any time you have the urge to smoke a cigarette.)

You may have had some success with some of these habit-replacement practices. What we want to address here is how to handle the ones that didn’t work, or didn’t take root for you.

In Catherine Ponder’s “Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, she mentions in Chapter 4 about the idea of creating a vacuum. You have to let go of old beliefs mentally and “make room” for new beliefs to come in.

If you’re already familiar with releasing, then this is nothing new to you. Just set up some time daily or incorporate this into your current schedule.

Otherwise, she recommends taking a half-hour daily to simply release old beliefs. She also notes that forgiveness might be needed. “Forgive” is really another term for releasing, as it literally means to “give for.” You have to release the non-optimal feelings you have toward others and toward yourself. These feelings are the glue which hold these beliefs in your mind. When you dissolve that glue, then it’s simple to move in other beliefs and the habitual actions you now need.

Habits and emotions are programmed things. Below them are beliefs. And below these are feelings.

Interestingly, you can go back to the old Polynesian shaman practices to resolve these quickly. They called one practice Ho’oponopono, which was used for healing. While there are many versions of this, Joe Vitale found a Dr. Hew Len who had made a very simple version of this for our Western minds. (Link to this in the show notes.)

And when you boil this down, comparing it to other New Thought principles such as Wattle’s Science of Getting Rich, you’ll see that there are simple ideas you need to recognize as a pattern:

Gratitude

Responsibility

Releasing

Re-creation

We could go into a long description of each one of these, but they can be a simple set of phrases.

Gratitude: Thank you.
Appreciate what is and the goodness there.

Responsibility: I’m sorry.
Accept ownership for the incident or condition. As belief creates fact, this has entered your world for some reason.

Releasing: Forgive me.
You let go of what you find in others and in yourself.

Re-creation: I Love You.
Love is the primal creative force in this universe. You now create the ideal you want to see.

Ponder suggested you spend a half-hour daily in the action simply forgiving. The steps above, done for each incident which comes to you, can make this simpler. The order isn’t so important as getting each point fully accomplished for any incident in your past which is holding that belief in place.

Thought this might help you.

It’s out of research for a new book coming out shortly, “Make Yourself Great Again.”

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1. We’ve Been Taught to Compete.

We’ve been lumped into teams our entire life and sold the idea that there isn’t enough to go around, so we’d better get our share first. “Survival of the fittest” and all that.

Competition has been the goal. This keeps top athletes very well paid until they wear themselves out at the ripe old age of 40. And then, with no real people skills to speak of, they disappear into the woodwork to sell used cars or hopefully manage investments of all the millions they were paid.

Those who weren’t consistently first tier learned other skills early, or reverted to the neighborhood average that sports had helped them climb out of for a little while. That meant entry-level jobs or sales positions, or working for a relative who had taken over the business from another relative.

2. We Aren’t Taught Creativity.

Music and Art are taught as something kids should be “exposed to” in order to be “well rounded.” And are the first to be cut back when the budgets get severe.

Like all other schooling, you are lumped into big classes by physical age which have nothing to do with actually improving your skills or talent at anything.

What is interesting is that the truly successful are so creative that they have a hard time at school, or work out how to deal with that culture in order to blend in and be ignored. Mostly, they drop out as soon as they can and start getting their real education outside. Hard Knocks University, it’s called.

Count the number of really rich people in the U.S. (Forbes’ list, probably) and you’ll find the vast majority are either college dropouts, never went, or attended some fairly unknown college in the Midwest.

These people are creative at finding solutions and solving things. The businesses they start and manage then expand like crazy and reward them for their unorthodox approaches.

3. The Business Buy and Dwindle Model.

The history of businesses is big fish swallowing the smaller ones. Businesses which are successful will buy direct competitors, or companies in a related area, so they can keep expanding. They’ll swallow their physical, personnel, and technical assets so they can grow. Anything they can’t use, they will sell off.

Big businesses buy other successful businesses. They may (or probably won’t) get the founder to work for them. Success in business is an individual leading a team.

Then, after the big businesses are too big to be bought, they’ll age. The original founders will exit, stage left, leaving new players on the stage who don’t have the drive and ambition they did. Things will roll along for awhile, usually after the board hires and fires several CEO’s in succession. Meanwhile, the big company is slowly trending down. J.C. Penney, Sears, Montgomery Wards – these all made their name with their annual catalogs which enabled them to expand without having to have a lot of physical buildings in every single town. Yet they have all declined and are still dwindling.

Other businesses, like Wal Mart and Amazon, are taking their place. But Amazon is really just Jeff Bezos. As long as he is there, it will continue to expand. Wal-Mart continues because Sam Walton had a lot of children and invested them all in the business (for tax reasons and others.)

McDonald’s continued to expand for quite awhile after Ray Kroc left it. This was mostly due to the amount of training they had built in, so that the policies and practices were genned into every worker they ever had. It’s not just the huge amount of prime real estate locations they own corporately. Businesses are people, always. One extremely talented person is the core, who is cross-trained in different areas, or knows how to find people he can hire to get the needed jobs done.

Once that creative core is gone, the business will start rotting from the inside out, regardless of appearances.

4. Fine Art Failures

Another extreme of how we mis-train our creatives is found in academia again.

I once had the short-lived experience of working in a college town with a handful of Masters of Fine Art (MFA’s) I didn’t even know that that term existed before then. (In a farming community, this was the Missouri Farmer’s Association, a co-op for grain sales.)

These MFA’s were taught all the fine points of artwork, but none of the business skills that were needed to pull it off. They were never required to take a class in writing business plans. All their training and examples were in mounting shows where they could display their art. Hopefully, they’d sell some. Yet they complained of their teachers who showed the same art year after year, with few new original pieces.

Someone who knows art needs to know or hire someone to sell it for them. Maxfield Parrish was a multi-millionaire during the Great Depression because he actually sold the same original six times.* And could be seen painting a half-dozen or more paintings all at the same time, applying one color to each one and then coming back around with another.

Both Thomas Hart Benton and Charley Russell were brilliant artists. And they married wives who were brilliant marketers.

And none of those artists got an MFA from anywhere.

5. Navigating the Book Publishing Swamp

Writing is probably worse off. All you have to do is to look at the amount of courses and services available to help authors part with their money in order to get their books into publishers hands. For all the good that does anyone. In the “old days” of traditional publishing, about 1 percent of the authors actually would get their books published and selling. This was out of the 3 percent who were accepted and published (meaning 2 out of the 3 didn’t actually sell well or at all.)

But today, when anyone can get their books published, you’ll find that the statistics are now even worse. To make a living from ebooks, you’d have to sell about 10,000 books a year at the $3 average commission. That would be about 30 per day. This means on Amazon you’d need a sales rank of about 3000 to 5000. What that means is that you have that many people selling better than you. Now, look at the total number of books available for sale. If you add all the Kindle categories up and divide by two (as each book can be in two categories) you’ll now find that your single book is competing with over 5 million other titles out there.

Now, if you look up all the surveys that authors have answered, you’ll find the same numbers keep coming up year after year:

The vast majority only write a single book. Ever.

That one book sells an average of 250 copies.

The average author (including all the high roller successes with the wannabes) makes about $5,000 per year.

Note that poverty level in this country is about $25,000 per year.

What do the real successes do? Multiple books, multiple pen names. This then reaps the long tail, since you aren’t trying to get that one book to do incredibly well, but spreading out a lot of just-better-than-average books to sell nicely for you. Even Author Earnings can’t estimate who is making a hidden killing, by their own admission.

But Author Earnings does report (in their May 2016 edition) that about 4,600 authors are at least making some nice side money with their book sales ($25,000 or more.) And there are 1,340 who are making more than $100,000 annually.

Again, before you get your hopes up, this is out of over 5 million books available. The clue to any author making a decent income is in the above, though.

6. Real Success is All Around Us, in the Real World.

The secrets to success are hidden in plain sight. But you have to learn to look, and how to winnow the chaff from the grain.

If you do, you’ll find out that every generation has someone writing essentially the same book as some one did a decade before them. And most of these authors who are successful with their self help book on success has an overlapping lifetime with someone else who did the same. If you track their back-trail closely, you’ll find they studied others works along this line in order to create their own version.

All the rules for becoming successful have been written up time and time again. If you look closely, you’ll also find that these principles (laws) are found in the oldest religious texts we have. They are that old and that ingrained in our living.

Napoleon Hill had several bestsellers based on the same material that it took him 20 years to distill the first time. He can be traced back to Charles F. Haanel, who wrote the Master Key System (a bestseller in its time). Haanel can be traced back to another bestseller author, Judge Thomas Troward of the late 1800’s. And Troward said he got it from studying all the main religions in their own language while a judge in provincial India.

More recently, you’ve got Stephen Covey, who distilled his 7 Habits book from studying 200 years of American self-help literature. And there’s Dale Carnegie, who evolved his How to Win Friends and Influence People while critiquing over 150,000 speeches in his speaking course.

If you study and distill, you’ll find the same answers coming up over and over and over. The same success principles, repeated in different words.

7. Your Own Mindset is the Culprit or The Master Key.

Your mindset is stacked like your habits. Your earliest trainings will either support the weight, or it will collapse. This is where failures come from, as well as nervous breakdowns and addictions.

People who build their mindsets on principles instead of dogma can succeed better than anyone else. Because principles have to be tested in life in order to be kept. The easy way out is to memorize a bunch of facts or affirmations, or aphorisms. But if this were a stable route to success, then you’d find people who said that the morals out of Aesop’s Fables were the key to their success. (But if you pick up that book today, you’d see that a lot of the morals simply don’t work to make real success. They do help you keep your day job, though.)

Schools and academia don’t train success principles. Or they’d follow their own urban legend studies and have courses on goal selection and attainment. (One academic did actually do a study on goals and found it was actually true, just not the outrageous “fake news” number reported for the fictitious Harvard and Yale studies.)

When about 2 percent of people make goals, you’ll then see why this number of 1 percent controlling 80% of the wealth on this planet (which actually is yet another urban legend. Yes there was one study sponsored by the U.N., but the numbers were massaged to get that click-bait headline.) The real truth is somewhere around an average of 3% become financially independent, even wealthy. The top 10 percent do OK or keep working. Everyone else is dependent on government dole to some degree after a 40-year working career. The Social Security statistics bear this out and haven’t changed much in decades by their own surveys.

The point is to test every “truth” you operate on and see if it consistently gives you results. The derivation of the word “success” actually means “results.”

If you build your world view and belief system on fake news and faulty conclusions, then your world will collapse on you at some time or the other. Sooner or later. Eventually. There is no real reason you should experience your world collapsing on you because of external events. Your world really only collapses because of how you put your mindset together. (Test that datum for yourself, don’t take my word for it.)

But if you start today to eliminate dogma and replace with tested principles, then you can re-stack your mindset, like you can re-stack your habits. Then you’ll be able to have success on tap. Turn it on or off, bigger or smaller flow as you want or need.

The point to all this is from Earl Nightingale (who distilled it from multiple earlier authors, including Napoleon Hill) when he said, “We Become What We Think About.”

Your action is to review your thinking. Then you can change what you want to be and have out of life. Change your thinking, and you can get whatever you really want. Keep thinking the same way and you’ll keep getting the same results.

Good luck – and have fun with this.

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Notes:

*Maxfield Parrish became one of the first artists smart enough to copyright his art work originals and license his images for “a one-time use only.” He said that: …”these other artists paint a picture and just sell it, I paint a picture for use as a calendar, an art print, playing cards, a greeting card, and a puzzle, and then I sell the painting. I sell my painting five or six times.” (Sothebys.com – https://goo.gl/18ORu7)

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3 Easy Questions to Improve Your Lifestyle

…but you may be afraid to ask.

Because it might make some changes in a complex world.

Hi there ,

Things aren’t always pleasant on the farm.

While life is at our door (and inside our house as well) death also is a natural partner in everything we do.

This week I took a steer for processing, and also had a calf literally scare itself to death. One keeps the farm running, and the other is a cost of doing business. Both could be sad if you wanted them to be.

Having death as a partner helps you think about it differently. It’s not like our “news” with a tiny minority of people violently affecting another small amount of people. (No, I’m not talking politics, but we’ll get there eventually.)

Death is a natural part of life, and if you study up on it, there’s a longer tradition of it being merely a door opening into another stage of the journey.

People who invest heavily into this short time we have here miss the broader picture of how great this stage of our journey can be. They are so busy working out how to keep their security, and control of their lives.

Some are even concerned about their “legacy” instead of just honestly working to help people (which the greatest legacies ever left were composed from. Sister Theresa, Jesus of Nazerth, Ghandi, Gautama Buddha, and that list goes on and on.)

This Live Sensical site pushes a very specific agenda:

Your life should be what you want it to be.

You should have every thing you want.

And the way to get these is to help other get what they want to have, what they want to be.

The four areas you can do this in (and there may be more, but four is as simple as I can get):

Mind

Body

Value

Bliss

I go over these at length in that manifesto.

In mind, we are dealing with a person’s self esteem, which is generated by yourself and has nothing to do with what people think of you.

Body is caring for the one you have, feeding and exercising it in the way it needs (not the way it seems to want.)

Value is how much and how good you give others, regardless of what exchange you get for it, or expect for it.

Bliss is what gets you up in the morning with a smile on your face and keeps you going all day. It lightens your step and you could talk about it for hours. It’s the cross of what you’re good at doing and what you’re fascinated about. Some say it’s what your here to do at this time.

When you balance these four points, then you can live sensical.

The only caveat is that you test everything for yourself and quit relying on Conventional Wisdom, including all your upbringing.

You question everything, especially what I tell you. Only when you’ve tested and proved anything and everything to be workable for you do you keep using those data or principles.

Only then.

Only.

Then.

A non-political note on politics

Life is what you make it.

And entertainment has the real reason of seeking to live vicariously through someone else’s actions and so learning to live better in your own. Politics is more entertainment than the dire drama it’s made out to be. For both major parties, it’s the flawed hero facing a tragic villain in a do-or-die scenario. For the minor parties, it’s the heroic underdog against the corrupt establishment and trying to make a real difference.

In all cases, it’s entertainment.

The sideshows are the apparency and denial of corruption all around. Sexual misconduct and malfeasance. All against the dystopian realities of our modern cities and and hidden threats which the newscasting media is continually trumpeting and spreading in order to keep us buying from their Big Pharma advertisers (or buying fast food.)

Here’s the 3 questions that can help you survive and thrive:

1. Does it make your life simpler?

2. Does it bring you peace?

3. Can you let it go?

The first was a question that J. J. Luna (privacy specialist) brought up. He was asked that by his lawyer, as unlikely as that is. But it strikes a chord.

Is your life very needlessly complex?

Can you drop things out of it that you don’t “need” to do? Are you being required to do things which are just complex solutions to a problem that isn’t really bothering you?

The second has been asked much longer.

I think I got it from Jose Silva (yes, that guy who figured out the Silva Method.) If something is upsetting you, should you keep doing it because it feels so good when you quit?

Or maybe, you can just quit now and then feel much better all the time you’re not doing it.

You always have a choice in everything that comes your way. In fact, it’s the one thing you can’t choose not to do. You can’t choose not to choose.

You can choose to simply go along to get along. But you chose, either way.

The question to ask: does that lead to a more peaceful way of living?

The third is way older than thought.

It is actually the basis of all prayer and meditation. I heard about it from Lester Levenson who came up with a Releasing Technique to help people adopt it. But I found it separately in Catherine Ponder’s works about Prosperity. And then, both Jesus and Buddha have talked about it, and they both mention earlier sources.

The point is not to resist or fight against something, but just to let it go as soon as you can. If you can’t let it go, there is either something more you want to learn from it, or it’s a good and basic principle you want to keep as a workable datum to base your life from.

When you put those questions into action, life can become simpler and more peaceful. As well, you’ll be come happier and more prosperous. You’ll be more certain about exactly what you want to do in your life.

But don’t take my word for it.

You won’t know for sure until you try it for yourself.

An integrated lifestyle

While you’re at it, consider your surroundings and see if you won’t do better living away from cities. That’s my radical idea for today.

Test it for yourself.

Some time ago, I found someone who said you could take the entire world’s population and move it into an area the size of Texas. But in that world, you’d live in a medium-sized, two story home with another family above/below. It would have a decent garden in back where you’d be able to grow your own food. 10 percent of that land mass would be devoted to services such as hospitals and schools, police and fire fighters, etc. That are would also have central work spaces for those who didn’t work at home.

Of course, we’d need to be recycling everything. Everything. But it could be self-sustaining and self-contained.

Of course, we’d have to get along and quit these idiotic ideas about violence and so on. We’d have to learn to live at peace with each other.

Now, it may never come to this.

As the people become more successful, their disposable income raises and they quit having as many children. The Census Bureau says we’ll be stopping world population growth at 2050 and will be declining after that. So if you want to save the environment, you’d work at helping everyone become more successful in their lives.

Simple logic.

(Me? No, I’d never live anywhere but in a rural area with low cost of living and able to eat fresh food and breathe clean air every chance I can. Work at home. Mostly quiet neighbors. The good life. Your choices are your own. These are mine.)

My hidden agenda

Of course, all I’m here for is to put the idea into your head that you can live a more peaceful, simple, and successful lives to the degree you devote yourself to openhandly helping others be and have whatever they want.

Because it’s all cause and effect. If you want something, you have to give something. The people who live the most rewarding lives give the most away. Even those who have spent the first half of their lives amassing wealth – they turn into philanothropists the other half. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gates, Buffet.

(The jury is still out on those who simply create non-profit organizations in order to “make more money” while avoiding paying taxes.)

You see where this is heading?

If you want to live a better life, then you need to move up the Maslow Hierarchy to trancendance. You’ll get the most out of your life where you are constantly working to help others. Openhandedly, without expecting anything in return.

Of course, you’ll probably find that you need to let people pay what they think it’s worth (or they’ll actually get mad at you.)

What this does is end the constant and endless squabbles. It gives us much simpler and more peaceful lives.

Ask yourself those questions for the next week when you are given a decision to make.

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…always means thinking backwards and acting forwards. This is how you plan your work and work your plan.

Hi there ,

Glad to have you here again.

This should be more straightforward as it’s written so you can be like the Magician Merlin (King Arthur’s mentor) who lived his life backwards.

Mostly unattributed, Socrates might have been quoting older authors when he said, “Begin with the end in mind.”

This has applications to your daily work and how you may be improving your attitudes so you improve your habits so improve your character.

We know many things by this time. One of these is that by discarding your emotions so you can listen to your feelings, you can isolate what to put more attention on and start living a more bliss-filled life.

It’s those old points of quit watching the news if it gets you upset. Find other people to hang around if your current associations are critical (and so, upsetting) most of the time. Fill your life with those things that make you feel good.

By doing that, you are thinking backward from the result you want and working forward to achieve a better result in your life.

You can also use this to accomplish just about any goal. Every goal has some major accomplishments to attain which add up to the goal. Those accomplishments can be broken down into smaller steps, which can be broken down into even smaller steps. These steps, sorted out into logical sequence (and preferably put in writing) are called plans.

You work backward from any goal to form your plan (plan your work.) Then you work forward on those steps in a logical sequence in order to achieve that minor or major part of your plan (work your plan.)

This will carry you through your entire life and you’ll have everything you need or want exactly when you need or want it to arrive.

Simple.

Begin with the end in mind.

Plan your work, work your plan.

Try these this week.

Now, the big announcement is a breakthrough to tell you about.

Long ago, months perhaps, I told you we were going to create courses. Then I wanted to write an introductory book, then I had to do some research on how to market books.

Well it’s time to get everything front to back again and put it in order.

That marketing research was completed this week. But before that introductory book can be published, I have to get each of the basic books it’s built on thoroughly studied.

Funny enough, it’s pretty common idea to teach whatever it is you want to learn. Geoff Shaw has it in his Kindling Course, and Joanna Penn mentioned it in a recent podcast.

The next steps then go to the first one, which is to build courses for the basic books I want to study. This also means building study guides for each chapter of those books.

I’ve separated out the book writing and publishing stuff this week to go into it’s own newsletter and pocast (and if you also want to hear about that, see below to sign up.)

In doing this, it became clear that when you do something, it’s good to be thorough and to use all the parts of it, even the cutting room floor bits. In digital publishing, everything can be used multiple times.

So, starting next week, you’ll start getting the first lesson for the first book in this podcast. It will also have a downloadable PDF (or several) and links to the references the author covered that week so you can do a thorough study and get everything you possibly can out of that chapter. It will also become an Amazon ebook.

The individual lessons will be built at the same time, as the audio will become a video. And there will be links to other material which explains what the author was talking about.

The first book will be Count to Four, which has roughly 16 chapters to include into a course. All told, with the rest of the books in the Strangest Secret Library, there are about 49 chapters, which is a years worth of study.

(You may note that we’re shifting over to another podcast stream for these lessons, Living Sensical, which is linked below.)

We then have an exciting and educational adventure in front of us. By Thanksgiving next year, we should again be brimming and maybe overflowing with blessings we can be grateful for.

As a note, we’ll probably miss this next week as there is a lot of pre-planning that has to occur.

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How to Become Exceptional

…because all success isn’t average or normal. Those you see out in front, ahead of everyone, are truly exceptional.

Hi there ,

News:

Finally had our last calf, who is an exceptional white-faced, white-striped bull calf. Survey of our walnut trees shows no crop this year, but I was able to get some persimmons and these look to be nice and fat. We looked up spice bushes (named because their leaves and berries can be used as an allspice substitute, kinda) and their fruit stays on almost all winter. There’s recipies for spice bush jelly online…

Inspirational:

It’s true. All outstanding success is exceptional. It may be that any success is exceptional.

Interestingly, this business about being successful came from some very mundane study of marketing. The word success itself comes from two words which mean “after” and “to go, come.” It together they took the meaning “result.”

This then implies that you need to follow through to get success. And so, both focus and persistence play big parts in achieving anything. The Elon Musks, and Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett all personify this type of thinking and approach to life.

You can then make a little note somewhere (yet another post-it note around your monitor?) that says, “Success is the result of focused persistance.” And that of course, implies having and pursuing a goal. Small wonder that success is exceptional when some 98% of everyone out there don’t set a goal to begin with.

Organizational:

The whole study of how to organize is working out for yourself how to run a business. Otherwise, you’re organizing for the sake of organizing. Which is fine by itself as a hobby. Doing caricatures yesterday, and a fellow artist told me the story from last year, where a girl sat down next to him and watched him draw for awhile. After a bit, she started organizing his pencils by their colors and rubber-banding them. Eventually, she left. Never left her name or had much conversation, my artist friend was of course busy drawing and hardly saw her leave. But this year opened his art box and saw the neat bundles of pencils.

Yet what is this girl’s goals? She helps openhandedly, yet never leaves any way to get in touch with her. She likes art, like to organize, but didn’t give a way that artist could help her in return.

The short view of this is that she is no business person, although a very nice person indeed.

You have to have a goal. You have to be able to plan toward that success. But you also have to let other people help you back in return. This is the reason to have websites, emails, and even physical locations. So people around you don’t get frustrated from being stuck with no way to pay back your help.

Obviously, paying it forward in advance is a great promotional gesture. But you always have to let the steam you build up have an outlet. Otherwise, your readers and listeners may find that they are about to burst. Oddly, they may start to resent your help after awhile.

Logically, we are all here to help others help others better. Chew that sentence over for a bit and test it for yourself. Make some examples how it might or might not be that way. You’ll probably find that the most successful businesses are built on giving real value (help) and enabling people to give them money (help in return).

All your organizing steps are to channel your and their help toward achieveing that goal you’re pursuing, wanting success at.

Goals:

So these are some actions you can take this week:

1. Verify your goal. Envision it as done. Get those cards made out if you haven’t already.
2. Plan out your steps to get the major actions laid out so they will wind up in success.
3. Write down the next six most important actions you need to take and number them in order of priority.
4. If you aren’t at work, then the next “work day” start working on number one and concentrate on getting this done successfully. Then take number 2 and so on. One at a time. (Forget this multi-tasking nonsense. Success is the result of being very focused and persistent.)
5. If you don’t get them all done, then you have your list for the next day. Add to this with anything else that came up and prioritize that list again.
This is described in “The $25,000 idea” as Earl Nightingale laid out years ago.

Have fun with this.

Again, hats off to you for all your help you’ve give out this week so openhandledly. You’re stacking up a mess of chips in this game, so you can cash in later. (Just make sure to leave your calling card as you do…)

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Life is Short, Art is Long

…quoting the old Greeks from so long ago. This isn’t an excuse, just reality.

Hi there ,

What your reading or listening to is a new format I’m trying out. Mainly because my emails are a little on the long side and my email coach liked when I created a podcast. So I can put stuff in here and tell you all about it. Best of both worlds for both of us.

Glad to have you here again.

Lots of stuff happening this week.

News:

Still expecting our last two calves to drop. [Update: just back from the evening pasture walk – found a nice bull calf getting its first meal from it’s heifer mother.] October is really late, but those they’re all fine. Any week now. Had some wild ducks on our pond which squeal instead of quacking. And they dive to surface on the other side of the pond. That’s a nice break. And I found the cows really like leftover apples, bad spots and all. But I don’t feed them more than treats. Hard to tell who’s training who…

Inspirational:

There’s an old Amerindian trick you can use to protect yourself from critical people around you. Did I mention that several people consider thoughts to be contagious? Well, it would be nice to have a simple solution that works for much more than critical thought infections – if you mentally draw a white circle around you, this will keep you from mental (and some believe even physical) harm. Claude Bristol shared that secret in his Magic of Believing.

Organizational:

This week, consider your ability to deal with life in a sort of 4-rung organizational ladder:

At the top is your goal, that burning desire.

Below that are your overarching strategies. The broad strokes of what you have to do to achieve, attain, or accomplish what you most want.

Below that are your tactical plans that might deal with only one step of that strategy.

The next rung down is your to-do steps, which you lay out daily to accomplish your planning.

The closer you are to the bottom, your work on each one gets more actionable and more specific. .

Goals:

Apply that ladder to your own goals this coming week. Do you have a set of broad steps that need to be in place for your goal to succeed? And plans for that next strategic step you should be taking? And daily steps to get that planning done for real?

Try these and let me know.

…and now for the rest of the story:

The Farm:

Yes, that is one cute calf. That was her first and everything went well. Sometimes the calves have trouble finding what they should be sucking on, so this was a big relief. One more to go.

The Content Business:

This may cover a lot of ground to bring you up to speed. I haven’t been able to tell you everything as there is just so much and I hate to fill people’s email boxes up.

The Writing & Publishing Series

Is basically wrapped up, as far as the writing – well, the new stuff. I recognized that I needed to apply what I’ve been finding to my own books. After I got those two new books up to a 3rd proof, I saw that what I needed to do was to go back and update my first book in this series. And it was incredibly surprising to see how much progress has been made in just three years. Practically, the update will be a nearly complete re-write. Then I’ll give it away to get people into this series.

The whole area of teaching people how to write and publish has been over-saturated for years. The top”sellers” in this category are all free. So the real use of this area is to get readers and email subscriptions. I’ve got 7 books in this series, and I need to create a collection. That is where any income will come from. The main thing is to get this book series verified with proper keywords and descriptions and linked to each other. Also, I’ll update the reader magnets in the ads as well as the landing page they all go to.

Lots of work. All I’m not doing is to record the audio books for these. But I already have a podcast, so that just needs links.

Frankly, I’m wrapping up this area. Probably nothing new to come out after this. All the research is now complete.

Other Updates and the Belief Course

Next after that is to update a series I created out of an book I already had the audio for. It needs a new collection with audio linked to each chapter. Also verify the metadata for each book.

Finally, I’ll then get back to my Believe, Succeed, and Live Free book (yes, that’s a new title.) This will be 7 books and include the Living Sensical manifesto as a giveaway. I’ll go ahead and record all this audio as well, releasing a short audiobook for each ebook, and then compile everything together into one final book, which will be ebook, paperback, deluxe hardback, audiobook, and CD.

The Belief book will also become a course later, which is where we’ve been heading all this time.

New Projects Coming Up

Again, I just have to complete old projects in order to start new ones.

With this latest writing research, it tells me what is needed to actually create a bestselling book series. I’m still slogging out some of the details to this, so its a bit rough. The skeleton of it is a longish series of short stories in fable-fantasy which tell morals. I haven’t worked out the actual production scene of it, but plan to start with the New Years.

Of course, you all get the previews, early releases, and special discounts. Just the people subscribed to this list. (Tell your friends to sign up if they aren’t. It’s going to be a helluva ride.)

The Rest of Life

Taking a steer to processing this week. Our last calf should be born tonight, with this weather shift we are in the middle of. (That’s mostly in God’s hands, you might say. A vet told me that it’s a joint decision between the cow and her calf.)

And I’m doing caricatures over at Columbia College in Columbia MO for their homecoming this weekend. Busy fall.

What to Expect

Coming up this week should be at least that first book updated (you’ll get a copy). Maybe I’ll publish one of those last two, although I’m tempted to put them both up at once. Books in a series do better released two weeks apart, interestingly. I’d like to get these out of the way.

That last research has gotten me quite hopeful about how any decent series of books can find their audience and start paying their way. I just have to test this on these existing books series I have, and publish the 7-book series that isn’t quite ready, and then something quite big with that fiction project.

Unless something changes, the Belief course will be off a ways. Just too many variables to consider that it will be able to be completed easily and then earn income. Plus, the muse is calling for more new books. I may feel different once I have all that audio done.

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…is the one you wrote out to remind you what you want to accomplish.

Hi there ,

Busy weeks seem normal these days. Interruptions and the unexpected just add spice to life, it seems.
News:

The book took another sharp left turn this week. So while it moved forward, it’s still not ready for review.

The deal is that it was being built on a weak foundation.

The whole point of this is to educate people on Nightingale’s Library of books and his Strangest Secret recording. I was busy working out how to get these into other book distribution lines outside of Kindle and suddenly realized that none of them were actually ready to test their wings.

So I’m back to simply publishing everything properly this next week until I have those five books all revamped and ready.

“Emerson might have been describing this law of giving and receiving and attraction when he wrote, ‘Great hearts send forth steadily the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.’ And who are the ‘great hearts’? Those people who dare to think and radiate great thoughts and expectancies of success and prosperity instead of failure, trouble and limitation. There’s nothing great, unusual, or praiseworthy about failure, trouble and limitation. Anyone can experience those things by following the line of least resistance and by entertaining the usual failure thoughts that one constantly hears every day.”

Nightingale changed his entire life when he discovered the phrase, “We become what we think about.” Then he tested this thoroughly for himself and quadrupled his income as a preliminary result. A few years later, he was inspired to make the “Strangest Secret” recording we are familiar with. That was 1956. He was reading Think and Grow Rich, which was first published in 1937. Ponder’s book was first published in 1962.

While you can trace New Thought back to the 1920’s and earlier to the 1880’s, you’ll also find Nightingale and Ponder quoting the Bible (as popularized by James Allen) in “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” A few thousand years of history doesn’t change basic laws of this universe we live in.

That single idea is the single source concept for all these references Nightingale referred to, and shows up in condensed form in this upcoming book.

Practice this in any spare time this coming week by chasing what happens to you back to how you thought about it earlier. You should see quite a set of uncanny coincidences as a result. You only have to look in order to find.

Organizational:

As mentioned, I was researching how to get books published outside of Amazon. One fascinating approach is to get Libraries to get your book, which when spreads through their network and can result in more sales than just advertising. This week, I’ll publish that as a Shortread on Kindle and also a thin paperback.

What it exposed was one major point: Focus on just a very few things and get these completely done before you move to the next one. If you can (or must) delegate these to others, you still have to make sure they get completed.

As mentioned before, this fad of “multi-tasking” blows up your life. It’s false. Completely. Computers and people only think about one thing at a time. When they go off to think on something else for awhile and then come back, they are completing things more slowly overall. (That’s why your computer will “freeze” – it’s got too many things filling up it’s limited memory.) The best approach is always keep a firm focus on one thing at a time, getting that done before you move to the next. Sure you can do something temporarily if something else is needed. (Like you can mix the frosting and prepare the decorations while you’re waiting for the cake to bake. But these are all part of the larger product of a tasty, attractive cake ready to eat.)

Most computers have this button which hides all the open windows and programs you are using. This is so you can focus on just one thing. And that is the best way to write. People talk constantly about shutting things off when they are supposed to be writing. Stephen King recommended putting your writing desk in a corner of the room.

Goals:

Got your goal cards? Those ones you wrote out with your goal on them. One at your nightstand, one to carry with you to review several times during the day. Bristol said to boil your statement down to just a few words or a single one and then write that on the back of several business cards and put these everywhere you go during the day. Never explain to anyone what they mean, but put them on every mirror and above every computer monitor or TV screen you look at during the day. By the door as you leave. On the table where you leave your keys when you come in. Have that card everywhere so you are constantly reminded of what you decided to achieve.

Then, when you see it, take a moment to get the idea in your mind of how it’s already achieved and the feelings that this brings up in you. Relax in these and appreciate them. It just takes a moment.

Do this often and you’ll sharpen your imagination and get the needed inspiration during the day to solve the problems you encounter on that journey. Keep in action all the time, with a calm and cheerful expectancy of what is coming your way.

I do hope your life is all that more enjoyable. And thanks again for all those you’ve helped open-handedly.

]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/card-foretells-future/feed/0…is the one you wrote out to remind you what you want to accomplish. Hi there , Busy weeks seem normal these days. Interruptions and the unexpected just add spice to life, it seems. News: The book took another sharp left turn this week. So while it moved forward, it’s still not ready for review. [...]NoNo7:20Robert C. Worstellcatherine ponder, earl nightingale, focus, goal achievement, inspirational, successHow To's and Why's You Can Use to Build Your Authorpreneur SuccessHow to Achieve Your Goal – A Recipe for Successhttp://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/achieve-your-goal/
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How to Achieve Your Goal – A Recipe for Success

Hi there ,

Another week rolls around and for all the things we chose to do or get done, there are always those things we simply can’t get around to doing.

The key, as always, is to focus on what is most important. And important means to you and yours.

We’ve often gone over here about how you test everything you run across, everything that you listen to or read.

Which brings us to our three points for this week:

Inspiration

Your beliefs seem to establish facts to prove themselves. This explains the old saying that if you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth. But the converse is true – that if you tell the truth often enough people will adopt it and use it.

Belief, then, is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is the stuff of movements, and tipping points. The flip side is that it’s also the reason cults flourish – usually only for the lifetime of their founder. The more truth you have on your side, the greater chance that your work will become viral and spread.

The ancient Polynesians had a saying: Truth is as valuable as it is workable. And so this explains Philosophy (philo = love of + sophos = truth) as “Love of things that work.” So philosphy is very close to engineering. And that explains how Henry Ford was able to succeed with the automobile in an age of horse-drawn carriages. And also why the passenger rail system only survives based on government support, while commercial airlines work and private flight hasn’t had the same success as cars do.

It also explains why terrorism is always doomed to failure, regardless of how much our press promotes it.

This point came up as I continue to edit the first draft of a book on belief, which working title is “When You Believe, You Succeed.”

Of course, I wasn’t intending to do any more than simply introduce people to the books mentioned in Earl Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret” recording. I’ve also mentioned that books have a life of their own. Once you look into the soul of a book, then you’re committed to tell that story more as a guide than an author.

What you believe tends to create the world around you. You create your own success or lack of it by the faith you put behind your own beliefs. And regardless of where you got your beliefs, you chose them and they are yours. The one saving grace is that your belief-system is non-permanent. Your beliefs are in constant flux and evolution.

The worst part of this are any beliefs you hold that you haven’t examined and tested for workability. If any part of these are false, then you can possibly experience a partial or complete melt-down of your belief-system. This is called a paradigm shift. It’s also called failure.

The best part of it is that none of this is permanent, and humankind is very resilient. Simply re-work your beliefs based on tested and proved ideas, and start back up on your road to success. (Success being whatever you want it to be, of course.)

Success Strategies

Here we usually simply cover publishing, since the passive income from this area can bring you financial freedom enough to follow whatever bliss it is that makes you feel good all the time.

The vast majority of the book publishing courses out there deal with Kindle ebooks. Few examine print or audio books and fewer still the huge world that exists beyond the walled garden of Amazon. However, Kindle ebooks deal with less than 30% of the total book sales possible. And these statistics are sketchy, since there are no real comprehensive studies out there. The Big 5 release their own statistics (where they keep shooting themselves in their collective foot) and Author Earnings only lives inside the Amazon garden itself.

With over 70% of ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook sales (leaving spoken-word CD’s for now) occurring outside Amazon Kindle, then this can be an interesting approach to income.

The general route for success is to publish in all possible formats and on all possible platforms. Once you have a digital version of anything, it’s fairly simple to generate all the other alternatives.

The main point is to get your book-versions into Ingrams and other wholesalers, where bookstores and libraries can then stock them for you.

The simplest ways to do this are to use Print on Demand publishers for paperbacks and hardbacks such as Lulu.com and IngramSpark (although this last has annual fees to keep your books in circulation, a carry-over from earlier days.) CreateSpace, however touted, isn’t much appreciated outside Amazon, and they don’t do hardbacks.

Your ebooks and CD’s both have different lines to get into these wholesalers. This cries out for an aggregator to do this work for self-publishers. Otherwise, you really are committed to building an independent publishing house to do this for you.

You can then promote to Libraries to carry your print books, as well as your audiobooks and CD’s.

Meanwhile, you’re running FB ads to promote your titles (meaning: all book versions of the same original digital file) in various regional areas.

Again, this means running your business as a real business. And that’s different from self-publishing authors running FB ads to make their Kindle ebooks a hit – which is the current limited definition of success.

Just wanted to give you an overview of what’s ahead for you as you work to really make some decent passive income for yourself. Passive income doesn’t mean set-and-forget. It means you spend part of your time daily or weekly actually doing the work of your business. And if you want to write new work the rest of your time (or visit the beach, mountains, or wilderness areas) you have that option.

Because such a business nowadays doesn’t mean you have to be tied down to a certain location. It just means that you have to run your business as a business in order to succeed.

Goal Achievement

As mentioned, I didn’t get done all I wanted to do this week. I got some things done, but had to sit back and review production to see why only that amount did get done.

The deal was really the problem of experimenting on a production line. Once you figure out how something works, then all you have to do is to put more products on that production line and get them through. When you test new items, there are always unexpected problems you’ll run into which suck your time. Always.

This lead me to unearthing an old and tested recipe to share with you.

How to Attain Your Goals:

1. Make a list of what has worked for you.
2. Make a list of what didn’t work.
3. Get the first list in.
4. Drop any action on the second list out.
5. Work out and get into a sensible working structure.
6. Let go of any efforts to defend or justify what you’ve been doing – simply get on with it.

And also, there is this.

Four Factors of Success

a. Hard work – focused self-discipline in working toward an established goal.
b. Abundant exchange – following the Golden Rule and also going the extra mile in all you do.
c. Know as you go – know your craft and your business in its basics and routinely applying these in every action.
d. Stick to the successful – do the things that always bring successs, quit chasing the “latest and greatest.”

Let me leave you with this revelation:

The statistic of 98% of all people not setting goals means that these same people are pushing the goals that the 2% did set. (It’s often called a “day job.”)

Hope this helps you with whatever you are working to accomplish this week.

As usual, let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you.

And thanks again for all the help you’ve given others. They appreciate it more than you know.

]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/achieve-your-goal/feed/0How to Achieve Your Goal – A Recipe for Success Hi there , Another week rolls around and for all the things we chose to do or get done, there are always those things we simply can’t get around to doing. The key, as always, is to focus on what is most important. And important [...]NoNo9:24Robert C. Worstellachieve your goal, belief, goal achievement, success, truthHow To's and Why's You Can Use to Build Your Authorpreneur SuccessWriting Your Book: Listen to Your Muse and Learnhttp://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/writing-book-listen-muse-learn/
http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/writing-book-listen-muse-learn/#respondTue, 21 Jun 2016 20:11:03 +0000Robert C. Worstellhttp://livesensical.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9875One of this year’s cute calves – name is “Double Aught.”

This episode was extracted from a Mastermind group I participated in yesterday. It says everything about what I’ve been going through lately in building a new book. The inspirations are constantly giving new ideas and builds for this book, so starting over has been consistent.

]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/writing-book-listen-muse-learn/feed/0This episode was extracted from a Mastermind group I participated in yesterday. It says everything about what I’ve been going through lately in building a new book. The inspirations are constantly giving new ideas and builds for this book, so starting over has been consistent. Sorry, no transcript. But it’s only around five minutes long. [...]NoNo7:27Robert C. Worstellcatherine ponder, cow, lester levenson, releasing, story grid, writingHow To's and Why's You Can Use to Build Your Authorpreneur SuccessHow Stories Affect Your Life – and Explain Everythinghttp://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/stories-affect-life-explain-everything/
http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/stories-affect-life-explain-everything/#respondSat, 11 Jun 2016 23:37:55 +0000Robert C. Worstellhttp://livesensical.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9852

How Stories Affect Your Life – and Explain Everything

(Show notes…)

Something different this week – thought I’d practice some free-wheeling ad lib instead of reading from a polished script.

How’s the farm?

The cows are all fine, and thanks for asking. We’ve gone nearly two weeks since our last calf dropped, and the 5 momma’s left were brought up near the house so I’ll know if there’s any problem. They all have plenty of grass for now, and shade, and water. They’re as content as I can arrange.

Hot weather these last few days.

What was the progress this week?

Followed my 22 books up in several days this last week to getting 6 books up in a single day.

– catching up my paperbacks from Lulu onto CS.
– all PD books to improve my baseline.
– key point is that I have been able to streamline the production and maintain quality to get greater volume.

However, the limits to PD are starting to show. Mainly that you can’t seemingly advertise them effectively to leverage their sales as you can with original fiction.

What are you working on now?

Learning how great stories are built, as people understand something when they have a story to link it to. They remember the story.

Three Acts, Four Builds, Five parts

What does that have to do with anything in the real world?

Arch plot has to do with chosen goals. Most people don’t select their goals to achieve and so have no journey in their lives.

Mini-plot is always open-ended and is what most people share in common – or for genius-types, the search for having that meaning. (Scorpion on TV, as well as Supergirl, Marvel movies, and other bigger-than-life heroes who are working to make sense out of their extreme talents and abilities.)

The Anti-plot is the land of the overwhelmed, by the gods or the increasingly inter-related environment, while also being composed of belief and faith – which exist for everyone, not just the realm of the religious or enlightened. The world of the Avant-garde, and Zen. (It also increasingly describes modern government, sadly.)

Every person seems to have these, and can apply them in their own lives to improve what they have, or kill themselves off slowly.

– – – –

What’s coming up?

I’m in the middle of a couple of courses from Steve Harrison and his partners that explain the differences and crosses between traditional and self-publishing. (Plus, how to get your book onto the NYT bestseller list…)

The course I’m building (for the Strangest Secret Library) is starting to get worked up, which then made me dig into my earlier studies to master stories as beats of a book.

I have some people who have agreed to come on line and help out with building this course. It means I have to learn how to get a course built with the LMS (Learning Management System) built into Rainmaker platform.

And I have to build the course itself.

As I have to report every week to you all, there is some accountability here.

What can we expect this week?

I should have some more books published. That’s the advantage of publishing PD, I can find books that sell and study why they are still selling a hundred years after they were written.

And I should have the first parts of the course laid out.

Somewhere in here, I have to start getting lined up with getting onto other people’s podcasts and eventually getting onto radio interviews. All squeezed into an over-filled week.

– – – –

Stay tuned and sign up for the membership (scroll up and enter your email top right) and you can join this adventure.

But that’s all after I had to rearrange some fences this morning and sort a couple of cows away from my bull-calves.

Raising cattle is very similar to what they call “sales funnels.” It’s a matter of building trust. Cattle who are calm will gain weight faster and not worry you so much when you have to move around them.

Your best scene is to be able to call them from several hundred yards away and have them come follow you calmly. You want them to trust you as a feed source, and you want to be able to trust them not to run you over to get to that feed.

Bulls have a deserved reputation for being cantankerous and downright dangerous.

We got ourselves a Galloway bull years ago and found that he is nearly as gentle as the cows. I’ve even heard a story of one Galloway bull who would lay down on the ground just so the little kids could play on and around him. Ours isn’t that tame, but he does like to get scratched.

The bull-calves I was sorting to day are his offspring, and I was worried that they were a little too skittish. During the sorting today, it seems that the more I’ve worked with them, the calmer they’ve gotten.

This, too, is very similar to what you do in order to get customers to move from just buying from you to buying consistently from you.

If you are only expecting to get sales from Amazon, you aren’t really interacting with your customers. And so they can act a little wild at times and run off when you’re trying to corral them into a different area. Most authors don’t see this, since they are told to keep their blinders on and just keep their books on Amazon.

Not too surprisingly, the authors I’ve studied who are making six-figures don’t follow that model. They bring their customers closer in by getting them to subscribe to their email list. And then those customers become involved in their writing and also in giving reviews, which moves their books up as better sellers on Amazon. They also provide other courses and material to their customers and also sell other places than just Amazon.

Having a herd of customers that come when you call, and will maneuver through the fences and open gates to get to you is quite nice. And you reward them with treats (valuable content they want) so they keep doing just that.

About there, the analogy quits. People need to be treated like people. You build real relationships with them as individuals. You build mutual trust.

I completed a couple of courses that I had signed up for this week, in part to sort out this exact scene of promotion and sales. Not too surprising, it became obvious that they had swallowed some “conventional wisdom” that didn’t test out. To a greater or lesser degree, this meant that they were unwittingly running a scam. What it actually meant is that the quality of their course was insufficient for this student to recommend them to anyone else.

In short, they were not above average. It didn’t matter what fancy titles they called their stuff, or what authorities recommended them. Their stuff simply didn’t work any better than anyone else’s. Average. Usual. Conventional. Strip mall quality.

And that’s not how you build relationships with your list. You need to be producing value far in excess of what they expect to find. You need to constantly go that extra, second mile.

The one key breakthrough I did get was incidental. It is the definition of promotion. I’ve been testing it out for a few weeks now and it’s held up:

“Ask to get in front of other people s audiences and give then additional choices that they ll appreciate.”

If you do this successfully, then that audience will also join your audience – often with the host recommending they do so.

I’ve worked up a whole episode which tells more about how that works (as linked) so you can follow my logic and test it for yourself.

This week, we didn’t get any new books for you. There are a couple of courses in the works. And this will mean a lot of short reads for you – I’ve got another podcast episode to finish to tell you how this model works. But I have to get back to editing it into shape.

Meanwhile, we’ve been busy fixing some errors we found on the site, just to make it better for you. And a have a stack of about 20 books that my Indian VA will start cranking out shortly. All classics, all useful. And more about that later.

But I’ve been chewing on your ear enough today already.

Hope everything is going well for you.

There are a lot of updates on the site and on the various pages that are unannounced. I was able to tweak a few of them this week. So there may be downloads you haven’t seen before. Do make the rounds to see if you can find all the Easter eggs. And sign up for any you haven’t already. Your membership has a lot, it’s true, but there’s far more available…

Well, thanks again for all you do and all those you help.

If you do need anything from me, or just want to give an attaboy, leave a commend in the show notes or a review on iTunes.

]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/breakthroughs-bull-calves-what-sales-funnels-cattle-raising-share/feed/0(Download this audio.) It’s fun when you find things crossing over. As I write this, I’m in the middle of editing a couple of podcasts for our Selling Your Books Online podcast. But that’s all after I had to rearrange some fences this morning and sort a couple of cows away from my bull-calves. Raising [...]NoNo6:30Robert C. Worstellamazon, cattle, sales funnels, trustHow To's and Why's You Can Use to Build Your Authorpreneur SuccessScam Free Repurposing: How to Enjoy More Freedomhttp://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/scam-free-repurposing-enjoy-freedom/
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Scam Free Re-purposing …how to enjoy more freedom and earn more income from the content you produce

Hi there ,

The farm is going along nicely. Lots of cattle re-arranging this week, as our steers got fixed, we sold our extras (traded them for hay, actually.) And started rotating our herd through the pastures while we wait for this year’s crop of calves to start dropping in May.

Everything is back to being organized, with our “home herd” set out to mow our lawns until August. Used to do this riding a lawn mower for hours once a week, which would take a day out of my week. Now I take a half-hour to set up the fences and let them at it. Now I just use the mower for trimming and that takes maybe 20 minutes. Less machinery, more natural.

Otherwise, the spring flowers are coming up, along with the apple, pear, and plum blossoms, both wild and cultured versions. Pretty time of year.

This was a busy week in podcasting, otherwise. (No new ebooks for you, sorry.)

“If You Can Count to Four” went live. As well, I got involved in republishing an old set of videos into a podcast – “Get Your Self Scam Free.” If you go to that page, you’ll see them all live now, so you can listen and watch and download to your heart content. The paperback and other versions are there, too. (And if you want to go to Amazon and leave reviews, that would be nice as well.)

The point of getting the Scam Free material back up there was as homework for a joint podcast I’ll be helping out with. And it’s very good data to know and use in your life. It is truly possible to get completely scam free.

Also interesting as a marketing study, it was an exercise in getting some 7-year-old material repurposed.

You’ll note that it’s not my voice on those video lessons and the sound quality isn’t quite as good as it is now. It was nice to discover all these resources just sitting there on my hard drive (as well as YouTube). It was just a couple day’s work to get them all uploaded onto the LiveSensical.com site and everything set up and looking good. Then another few hours tweaking and catching errors.

This is actually a decent example for anyone who is running a content-based business online (like book publishers) or are using content marketing for their promotion. You can re-purpose anything probably a dozen or more different ways online. Once it’s in digital format, it’s easy to do.

These videos are now a finite podcast, and will always just be sitting there, so that anyone can download all the materials at any time. I’ve also added some new PDFs to the mix as well as recovering old ebooks. The idea is to get all of these available so people can learn how to keep track of their own choices and not be forced into some scams they don’t want. (We have enough of these we willingly participate in as it is.)

I also have several new Selling Your Book Online podcasts upcoming. One is ready for recording, two more are partially written or in outline form. A fourth is in research mode.

This Get Scam Free exercise jarred something loose today, which gives me a completely new article to podcast. This will cover how to set up the entire product lineup from scratch to attract customers and turn them into paying clients. Very elegant. And it’s a rinse-repeat scene – I can hardly wait to get it written up and podcast for you.

As far as repurposing, all these articles will probably also be converted into Kindle short reads and then combined into a bundle for CreateSpace and Lulu paperback publishing as well. Again, I’ll tell you how that fits into the overall model of content-publishing as a business.

Well, I’ll keep this short for this week. I have to get all this material produced which my muse has been stacking up for me. This next week look forward to finding even more materials you want to improve your life even better.

As usual, do leave a review on Amazon and/or iTunes, as well as any comment on the episode. Do email me directly when you find something I should know, you want help with, or just to give me an attaboy. All these are very welcome.

]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/scam-free-repurposing-enjoy-freedom/feed/0Scam Free Re-purposing …how to enjoy more freedom and earn more income from the content you produce Hi there , The farm is going along nicely. Lots of cattle re-arranging this week, as our steers got fixed, we sold our extras (traded them for hay, actually.) And started rotating our herd through the pastures while [...]NoNo5:41Robert C. Worstellcattle, content marketing, repurposing, scamHow To's and Why's You Can Use to Build Your Authorpreneur SuccessSpring has Sprung – Distractions Sprout Like Spring Flowershttp://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/spring-sprung-distractions-sprout-like-spring-flowers/
http://livesensical.com/podcast/publishing-farm-weeklies/spring-sprung-distractions-sprout-like-spring-flowers/#respondMon, 04 Apr 2016 10:00:52 +0000Robert C. Worstellhttp://livesensical.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9296

(Our youngest calf goes exploring under the fence – and just a couple days old.)

Spring has sprung …and distractions sprout like spring flowers.

Hi there ,

It’s been a busy week. Lots of things kept me from publishing anything for you this week – but I did anyway. A little bit.

We weaned the calves on Sunday last week, which is just separating the calves from their momma’s so they get used to just eating grass instead of that tasty milk.

Of course, it isn’t just that easy. We had one energetic bull-calf that figured out how to jump a fence taller than himself to get back with his momma. (And taught a couple more, apparently.) It’s taken until today to get them all back where they are supposed to be, even though I thought I had them right a couple of times. Tomorrow he goes to the vet, so if I can keep him in today (with my highest and strongest fences) then he’ll be back with the main herd to heal up as a steer.

All that either took time or tired me out from walking pastures and herding cattle. So: no new books published this week.

I did get some research done, which I’ll get to shortly.

What was published is some podcasts as a co-host – something new for me. Most of my stuff is scripted and on my own, so to schedule and work with someone else as a live discussion is different.

That gives us an 8th podcast for our site, called “Living Sensical Elsewhere.” Here I’ll republish those other podcasts for you.

These two are part of a series called “Technology and Choice.” Something very applicable to all the decisions we have on a daily basis, and even the habits we’ve put in place to help us live our lives.

I’ve jumped the queue a bit by publishing the second show just a bit before the final version is released. (So it’s just between us friends.)

Go and check out these few new episodes. (See below for links.)

We also have a new Selling Your Books Online podcast episode, which describes the economies of selling Print on Demand in self-publishing. It’s also about using Public Licensed Rights material to create new books. All research and testing done recently. Just wanted to keep you up to date.

Now, our last book-cast is nearly ready for prime time. This is “If You Can Count to Four” and completes that series of books. Hopefully, all will be ready Monday to pre-schedule all these episodes and get the first two out to you for listening.

In India, my trusty work-a-holic VA is starting up update our first book-cast and also update that ebook and print version with the podcast links. He’s finding and correcting a lot of errors, making things even better than before.

Once he’s done with these two short projects, then he’ll be back onto getting more classic books ready for you.

My own next project is to get the Living Sensical Manifesto (download link) recorded into an audio book and turned into a podcast. I’ve put this off too long already.

The idea here is to figure out what people find most useful and work on that first. I’ve got five books there and need to know which one you would like to learn more about first. The first go-round will be just 7 lessons, plus an intro and actionplan. Each will have it’s own audio. Each lesson will be available as an ebook on Amazon, a PDF to download, and a linked podcast. Then the whole set will be made into a book on Amazon and also published through Lulu as a hardcopy version.

Where you come in is to actually do the lessons and find the oops’s and uh-oh’s. Plus give me what you think of them and so on.

When we have them in decent shape with the minimum basics, then we’ll start the next. Once all those five books and an overview course are done, then they’ll be expanded with video’s and various free downloads of the references those authors made within their texts to give more background and deeper understanding of those books. That second set will be a paid course with life-long access to any and every update we come out with.

We’ll have a private release and a review period for all the lessons and materials. Then I’ll send the books out for professional proofing. After that, I’ll start getting the next course ready for you.

You can help me build the course as I go.

Lots to do here. More than me and my VA can do on our own.

And in addition to getting first look at these lessons and ebooks, you’ll also be asked to leave an honest review on Amazon when that ebook goes live.

I also intend to create some special commemorative editions through Lulu (like dust-jacketed hardbacks) and would like your feedback on these as well.

There’s just lots of stuff coming down the pike for you. But that’s the way I roll. Hope you don’t mind too much.

What we want to do overall is to create a training ground where people can develop their own Success System based on the natural success principles that are built into this universe we live in. Anyone who’s made any success knows a few of these. But even Napoleon Hill didn’t figure them all out. And he re-wrote his system three times, with his “Think and Grow Rich” being the second time. Each book made him millions.

There’s a lot more after that, as the projects don’t seem to quit. Like the back-burners of my mind just stretch into the distance.

The main point is we keep getting progress. I hope to have some more classics for you next week.

Those who have asked a question this week got them answered. Again, the perpetual offer is to ask me anything. Chances are, I have something around here that will fit. Like some crazy self-help store that has those huge shelves which just go on and on and on.

Ask away. That’s all I’m here for.

Just to remind you, these various sections of this site have their own opt-in’s. That’s so I can see what people want to do the most, and can talk to you just about those areas and not get them mixed up. Not everyone want to publish books, or start their own online business, or want to discover new classics to read every week. Pick what you want, that fits you best. All those links are in the show notes.

And do feel free to share this podcast and all these links with your friends and associates. There’s share buttons down there to use.

Leave a comment if you got something out of this, or didn’t, or want something additional. Plenty of room for comments. And email me. I answer all of them.

We’ll just keep finding and creating more educational, entertaining, and enlightening stuff every week. Just for you. If you don’t see something you’ve been looking for, let me know. Again, the only reason I’m here is to help you. Raised with big shoulders and all that.

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